Free translatorFree translator
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Fool's gold   /fulz goʊld/   Listen
Fool's gold

noun
1.
A common mineral (iron disulfide) that has a pale yellow color.  Synonyms: iron pyrite, pyrite.






WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |





"Fool's gold" Quotes from Famous Books



... already poked the prows of English ships into the icy straits of Greenland waters, seeking way to {26} China. He had come out with a fleet of fifteen sails and one hundred mariners in 1578 to found colonies, but was led away by the lure of "fool's gold." Loading his vessels with worthless rocks which he believed contained gold enough "to suffice all the gold gluttons of the world," he sailed back to England without leaving the trace of a colony. Francis Drake, the very same year, had for the first time plowed an English furrow ...
— Canada: the Empire of the North - Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom • Agnes C. Laut

... remembered in a flash the "fool's gold" which had adorned in rich profusion the head of the girl in the lace department ...
— Sheila of Big Wreck Cove - A Story of Cape Cod • James A. Cooper



Words linked to "Fool's gold" :   selenium, atomic number 34, se, mineral, pyrite



Copyright © 2024 Free Translator.org